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Click of Death - Iomega ZIP drives

The long saga of my (losing) battle with a 3 months old Iomega ZIP drive is coming here.

!|! NEW Steve Gibson has developed a FREE program for data recovery after a CIH virus attack.

Hard Drive Recovery: The CIH virus erases the first 2,048 sectors (1 megabyte) of each of the system's non-removable and writable disk drives. While this is certainly troublesome, the damage is very often 100% reversible and recoverable! (This is especially true if the drive contained multiple partitions, since only the first partition was truly damaged..)

A few cautionary links about ZIP's and the "Click of Death". Also known as COD. Steve Gibson's homepage also offers a freeware program to inspect your ZIP disks and drive for signs of COD.

Below is a list of links pinched off Steve's page:New Class action news. CNET - Iomega sued over Zip drive noise by Reuters, Special to CNET News.com, September 18, 1998.

The Unofficial Iomega Click Of Death Home Page. This was the first site to break the news of the Click Of Death. It also hosts one of the most "spirited" Click of Death Discussion Forums on the web. Check it out!
The Unofficial Iomega Page Click Of Death Message Board. This is another highly active and spirited online discussion forum and message board.
Iomega, Class Act or Class Action? This is a rather strange page from a very pissed-off Iomega customer. Many such pages exist on the web, so just consider this one representative. (There are many more, but you'll get the idea pretty quickly.)
W-3 Productions Iomega Bulletin Board. Yet another place where people endlessly rant and rave about Iomega. We suppose that at least this way they know that they are not alone in their misery.
Alex Sotelo's Anti-Iomega Page. This has some interesting photographs of Zip drive heads, and some discussion forum dialogs.
Bradley Miller's "Click Death" Fix Page. Brad presents a last resort "take it apart and nudge its guts" approach that has worked for him on several occasions.
"My Zip Drive is Clicking" Thus begins the page on Iomega's own technical support web site for Zip and Jaz drive users. Don't expect to find any helpfull information on C-O-D. The built in diagnostic tool in Iomega software told me everything was ok on the drive and disks that Iomega replaced. Go and download Steve Gibsons free TIP diagnostic program.

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